in his mind, a telegram from the Rockefeller foundation sug- 259 

 gested that he go to Manila and its School for hygiene and 

 public health in the university of the Philippines, for two 

 years. He was for declining, when Marie, sensing his enthu- 

 siasm for the project, suggested that he ask if one year might 

 prove acceptable. It did ; and he started from Cincinnati in the 

 spring. 



From Honolulu, from the beach at Waikiki, he sent a report 

 of his westward journey (April 25, 1929) : 



We were pretty much on the go in S F having most enjoyable 

 visits with the Strietmanns, Kellys, Ervins and Briccas. By 

 chance we ran into Woolley [he had resigned from the Cin- 

 cinnati faculty, had spent a year in Detroit, and had then gone 

 to California with a tuberculosis of the spine] who was up for 

 x-ray, looking well and as sassy and self-centred as ever. He 

 asked for no one. Here, we have been overwhelmed with kind- 

 ness — Fennels, Larsons, Leonards, Waysons, etc. I am to spend 

 to-morrow with Wayson talking leprosy; and the day after, 

 I talk on vaccine therapy to the medical group here. Larson 

 said that they would be curious to know what I thought, as 

 the "authorities" had come out attacking the usefulness of all 

 vaccines. If I am proved wrong, I will have to devote more 

 time to painting. — Say! I bet you went completely cuckoo 

 when you were here. I have never wanted to be able to paint 

 so much as now. The place is putting a spell over me. 



Wayson's clinical observations on treated and untreated 

 leprosy are most interesting. I believe he is right in his estimate 

 of the ester work [the administration of chaulmoogra oil or 

 its ester, at the moment hailed as "cure" for leprosy]. The 

 problem will have to be solved all over again. I wonder if Le 

 Blanc could compute for me, on the basis of probabilities, how 

 many solutions there are to a problem? After that, perhaps, 

 we might start. 



HIS first letter out of the School of hygiene in Manila, had 

 nothing to say of the town, but reported instead on the 

 fate of another of my personal pets. My laboratory had always 

 carried a rather extensive cross section of zoological life — 



